Between excitement and weariness in the face of the increase in violence against the police, the political class once again paid tribute to a police official killed in the performance of his duties.
"Everything is done so that this heinous act does not go unpunished,"
Prime Minister Jean Castex immediately assured after the death of an agent in Avignon (Vaucluse) during an anti-drug operation on Wednesday evening .
By going there in the wake, the Minister of the Interior regretted the
"death in combat"
of a
"hero"
,
"one of the soldiers of the war that we are waging in the face of drugs"
.
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This martial rhetoric has been blamed by some figures on the right and the National Rally (RN), who urge the executive to act.
"Hypertrophy of words, atrophy of acts",
denounced on Twitter the mayor (Les Républicains, LR) of Cannes, David Lisnard:
"To abuse the terms of" hero "and" war "(...) is a demagogic way for the power to avoid debate and accountability. ”
"Floor sentences"
Many
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